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THANK YOU everyone who pitched in for Dreaming Aloud and helped us meet our goal! I am humbled by your support and encouraged by your willingness to back this project! 🥹 We still have two days left with a modest stretch goal - additional pledges will help me bring the band to you live, play benefit concerts and smaller shows. I am really floored by your support. Thanks for helping me keep going ❤...

I love y’all and guess what - we have just 3 days left to make Dreaming Aloud a reality on Kickstarter. We are at 85% - sooooo close! Thank you to all who have pitched in so far, to folks who have upleveled their pledges (!) and thanks in advance to the folks who will put us over the finish line ❤️. Head over there now to In it for the Love… Why do we do it? Why do we make art? The music business...

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Huge thanks to all who have contributed to this album so far. We are already at 73% with just 9 days to go! It’s my deepest belief that when people come together aorund something we value - when we Dream Aloud together - we become unstoppable, and getting to create this album with your support feels like that! Later this week I’ll be sharing some pre-mixes of the new songs with you (!). If you hav...

Friends, just sharing a quick video today, in gratitude for everyone who has supported this Kickstarter so far, and the folks who come to my shows, read this newsletter, buy my albums. I am deeply grateful to be able to spend my time making music for you, and importantly, seeing you all bne part of this whole thing reminds me yet again of the power of community. I feel like we’re all doing this to...

Back in 2016, I was writing the song New Thanksgiving Feast. Mid-way through I called my producer to play him what I had so far. It was at that point mostly a catalog of images from America past and present, followed by a lot of editorializing. His advice was, “This is a song of images. Don’t editorialize”. For a song that starts with the whitewashed Thanksgiving story most of us Americans were ta...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jessklein.substack.com My new single, The Big Table is out now! Download it through the image below. All proceeds go to World Central Kitchen , who have returned to provide meals in Gaza even after 7 of their aid workers were killed. The beautiful artwork was created by Irish artist and muralist, Patrick Harnett . He included the 7 chai...

A week from tomorrow my new single, The Big Table drops. You can pre-order it now on my Bandcamp . Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage from the recording with my producer Mark Addison and guitar player Billy Masters at The Aerie in Austin. I love those dudes so much. Part of the reason I went back to Austin to record my last album When We Rise (and this single, The Big Table) was the feeling of...

Friends, my new single The Big Table drops 5/24.  It will only be available on my Bandcamp store and all proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen , who have returned to G*z* to provide food even after 7 of their aid workers were killed.  For a larger donation, I will send you a lyric sheet for The Big Table, handwritten and signed by me. I made a little sneak preview visualizer, with help from...

Most of my life has felt like following a series of unseen breadcrumbs - creatively, professionally, personally, spiritually. Sometimes I think I have arrived at the loaf, the destination, but as my guitar player said to me last week, “What is fixed and never changes? Nothing.” Life is fluid, strange, impossible to hold onto. Lessons arrive, smack you in the face, then look different a few months...

A few weeks ago I was at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City. For those who aren’t acquainted, this conference is one part music-nerd lock-in, one part hustle, one part no-sleep-i-love-everybody-aren’t-we-lucky-to-be-part-of-such-an-amazing-music-community. It’s 5 days of music of the mostly acoustic variety from 10 am to 3 am in the hallways, meeting rooms and private hotel...

I’ve often felt like an outsider - not being sure where I belonged, wishing I could get “inside” a culture, a community, an industry.  I thought getting in would make me feel safe, powerful, or both.  But the truth is my heart is drawn to the other outsiders, because I believe they (we) are the ones who have the best view of what’s going on.  Maybe you look at me and wonder what on earth I’m on th...

A few days ago I returned home from a trip to Egypt. It was the best trip I’ve ever been on. My mom brought me with her in honor of my 50th birthday and her forthcoming 80th. What made the experience so special, beyond the opportunity to be somewhere I’d never been and to share it with my mom was how much there was to learn. Our guide was an Egyptologist named Mohammed Rehim . If you ever have a c...

Friends, I have moved my newsletter onto Substack. Nothing has to change for you if you don’t want it to. You will continue to receive these newsletters in your email. However, you will now have the option to leave comments directly on my Substack . You can also upgrade to a paid subscription to support my work. For now, I am keeping all my posts visible for everyone while I see how this goes. Man...